The British Embassy has ignored the questions and concerns of the Georgian public, and in response, we have once again received an unfriendly statement, writes Speaker of the Georgian Parliament on his Facebook page.

“I would like to remind the public that just a few weeks ago, the British Embassy attempted to provide funding to organizations with an extremist agenda - Tamar Chergoleishvili’s partisan outlet “Tabula” and United National Movement -affiliated Gia Japaridze’s radical group “Academy of the Future”.

In both cases, the pretext for this funding was their alleged preparation of journalistic materials on local elections and election monitoring, even though both entities have openly sought to disrupt the electoral process.

This naturally raised a legitimate suspicion in society that the Embassy’s purpose might not have been to support the holding of municipal elections, but rather to strengthen financially those whose declared objective was the sabotage of elections.

At the time, I called on the Embassy to act with full transparency - to clarify how it came to fund radical, partisan organizations and to disclose which groups it was supporting during the 2024 elections.

As in previous instances, Embassy ignored these questions and concerns of the Georgian public. Instead, we received yet another unfriendly statement directed against the Georgian people”, - writes Shalva Papuashvili.

Thus he responds to the UK Embassy’s statement, which reads: “The UK is deeply disturbed by reports that the Prosecutor’s Office has frozen the accounts of seven NGOs as part of an investigation into alleged acts of sabotage. We are concerned they have been targeted as part of a politically motivated effort to silence independent voices, rather than a legitimate response to any unlawful activity”.